Song of the Week: “Hereos” from Atlanta band OIO

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This week’s song of the week is from OIO. Its definitely something different. It took me a minute to get into it so listen through the song.

The band on the song “Heroes”: “This was a song that basically “wrote itself” for different reasons, the majority of them stemming from the inner fight that kicks in when we find ourselves temporarily down, the thoughts you have just before the rage kicks in hard enough to propel you to get back up and decimate everything in your way on your path to victory. It’s both an homage and warning from the sense of a “deux ex machina” from greek tragedies as well as an “ode” to the hero. ”

Lyrics: Verse 1:If i was a nightingalewouldn’t none of you failto see that daylight can bring nightmaresWhen you sing a different taleBaby can you tellme what you’ll call these daylight hour scares

I’ll make you life a jailthis aint no taleyour the only one in my hotelI wanna hear you yellmaybe nightingale is what you’ll call your hour scares

Chorus:This is for heroesEarly before the dawn your victory bellowsA nocturnal song mmm hmm this is your odeAnyone can sing along but when noise overflowsOnly you crescendo ..oh-oh

The tower of lies you built has finally fellBy might of my wingspan in mid air

Your tower of babbleAll the lies you tellFlush down the toilet to your meant well

Don’t underestimate make no mistakeAll the venom I bring with no snakeCool second to break is all it takesTo make my knee-jerk react, give way

Chorus:This is for heroesEarly before the dawn your victory bellowsA nocturnal song mmm hmm this is your odeAnyone can sing along but when noise overflowsOnly you crescendo oh-oh-oh-ohEarly before the dawn your victory bellowsA nocturnal song mmmhmm this is your odeAnyone can sing along but when noise overflowsOnly you crescendo

Bridge/Ad Lib

This is for heroesEarly before the dawn your victory bellowsA nocturnal song mmmhmm this is your odeAnyone can sing along but when noise overflowsOnly you crescendo oh-ohrepeat 3x

The pair met in an electronic musician’s online forum, and immediately decided to test their musical compatibility by joining efforts on a preliminary demo track. That demo would turn out to be their first song, “People,” and a mutual acknowledgement that their efforts were a definitive success. They met in person at Stamps’ studio later that same week eager to produce more of the magic they had discovered resulting from their newfound musical chemistry.

Prior to OIO, Stamps experienced commercial success and airplay with a previous bands Rocket Surgery and Tea Leaves, while Simmons experimented on projects with various electronic producers, as well as wrote and performed her with her own bands she organized throughout NYC and Atlanta.